I don't have all the reading material most of you have, but I have had, to the detriment of my retirement savings, the intuitive ability to distinguish 'quality' irrespective of the form into which it is contained. I believe that product lines which are based upon a foundation model are simply enhanced, or embellished more than the lower price version. It may simply be semantics, but I don't think these embellishments, or enhancements add to the quality, so much as they add to the desirability. In the case of Parkers, Form doesn't alter function.
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